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  • LU, Luxembourg
    Job ID: 2790938
    (Updated 57 days ago)
    Amazon's EU International Technology (EU INTech) Selection Expansion (SelEx) charter mission is to accelerate the selection flywheel for Sellers. To achieve our mission, we drive bottoms-up innovations with the mental model of the EU first solution and scale WW. Our North Star is to delight Sellers with an automated selection expansion experience to help them grow their business, bringing their selection to all customers world-wide. Key job responsibilities We are looking for Applied Scientists who are passionate to solve highly ambiguous and challenging problems at global scale. You will be responsible for major science challenges for our team, including forecasting, ranking and reccomendations. You will design, develop, deliver and support a variety of models in collaboration with a variety of roles and partner teams around the world. You will influence scientific direction and best practices and maintain quality on team deliverables. A day in the life You will work with Sr and Principal Program Manager, Business Intelligence Engineer and Scientists (internal and external to the team) to create solutions/models that will help seller to maximize the value of their investments while expanding in EU and WW. You will be supported by a team of more than 25 engineers to build the next chapter of selection expansion. About the team We are builders focused in one of the most critical sections of the flywheel: Selection. We built and own solutions such as Exports Central and EEA (European Expansion Accelerator), and continue to evolve and create ways to bring selection around the world.
  • (Updated 19 days ago)
    The Community Feedback organization owns the experiences and systems that enable shoppers to provide and review trusted customer-generated content across the shopping journey. We bring together trusted, authentic inputs from the community and surface them with the help of AI so that customers can make effortless, high-confidence, purchase decisions. Features such as Customer Reviews, Content Moderation, and Customer Questions & Answers (Q&A), build a rewarding and engaging experience for creators to share their feedback, providing shoppers with trusted insights based on this feedback to inform their shopping decisions. We offer billions of star ratings and reviews with text, together with hundreds of millions of reviews and Q&A with media. Our vision is to make Amazon the internet’s most trustworthy, helpful, and delightful guide for customers on any shopping mission. Community Feedback materially impacts every retail marketplace, category and selling partner. Our features are a highly visible product, serving hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Our team was the first to launch a customer-facing experience on Amazon that uses generative AI. Customer Reviews has received an overwhelming press coverage and S-Team visibility due to the launch of Review Highlights” feature - an AI-generated summary of text-based customer reviews. Since then, all customer-generated content has been used to power multiple high-profile experiences across the store such as Amazon’s Shopping AI Assistant (Rufus). The Principal Applied Scientist will be a thought leader and innovator to power this momentum and unlock further future value for customers. This role owns strategic projects in new and ambiguous areas leveraging advance machine learning techniques to create new scalable products. The customer problems to solve for can vary from how to rank and search content across the store, detect and mitigate abuse vectors such as fake reviews, to aggregate and summarize insights to help customers discover, compare, and purchase products at Amazon. This role requires experience and domain knowledge in NLP and ML, together with effective communication and collaboration skills to influence across multiple partnership teams including Search, Personalization, Rufus (Amazon’s Shopping AI Assistant) and Alexa. This position can be located in Barcelona, Madrid, or Berlin. Key job responsibilities As a Principal Applied Scientist, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. You are a hands-on scientific leader you are tackling intrinsically hard problems, whose solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically fearless and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance). About the team The Community Shopping team is part of the Shopping Discovery & Evaluation team, and our vision is to make Amazon the internet’s most trustworthy, helpful, and delightful guide for customers on any shopping mission. From the moment customers visit our store, we help them find what they are looking for and delight in our vast offering of products and services (Navigation Experience). We create immersive, visual, and personalized shopping experiences that inspire customers to kickstart their next shopping journey (Inspire, Amazon Native Player). We bring together trusted, authentic inputs from the community, and surface those inputs with the help of generative AI, to help customers confidently inform their next purchase (Community Feedback).
  • Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. We invent new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding, fulfilling and fun. Amazon Robotics is seeking Applied Science Interns and Co-ops with a passion for robotic research to work on cutting edge algorithms for robotics. Our team works on challenging and high-impact projects within robotics. Examples of projects include allocating resources to complete a million orders a day, coordinating the motion of thousands of robots, autonomous navigation in warehouses, identifying objects and damage, and learning how to grasp all the products Amazon sells. As an Applied Science Intern/Co-op at Amazon Robotics, you will be working on one or more of our robotic technologies such as autonomous mobile robots, robot manipulators, and computer vision identification technologies. The intern/co-op project(s) and the internship/co-op location are determined by the team the student will be working on. Please note that by applying to this role you would be considered for Applied Scientist summer intern, spring co-op, and fall co-op roles on various Amazon Robotics teams. These teams work on robotics research within areas such as computer vision, machine learning, robotic manipulation, navigation, path planning, perception, optimization and more. Learn more about Amazon Robotics: https://amazon.jobs/en/teams/amazon-robotics
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use deep learning, natural language processing, large language models to help Amazon provide the best seller experience across the entire Seller life cycle, including recruitment, growth, support and provide the best customer and seller experience by automatically mitigating risk? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help manage the trust and safety of millions of customer interactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and creating state-of-the-art algorithms to solve real world problems? Are you excited by the opportunity to leverage GenAI and innovate on top of the state-of-the-art large language models to improve customer and seller experience? Do you like to build end-to-end business solutions and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify processes? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning Accelerator team in the Amazon Selling Partner Services (SPS) group. Key job responsibilities The scope of an Applied Scientist III in the Selling Partner Services (SPS) Machine Learning Accelerator (MLA) team is to research and prototype Machine Learning applications that solve strategic business problems across SPS domains. Additionally, the scientist collaborates with engineers and business partners to design and implement solutions at scale when they are determined to be of broad benefit to SPS organizations. They develop large-scale solutions for high impact projects, introduce tools and other techniques that can be used to solve problems from various perspectives, and show depth and competence in more than one area. They influence the team’s technical strategy by making insightful contributions to the team’s priorities, approach and planning. They develop and introduce tools and practices that streamline the work of the team, and they mentor junior team members and participate in hiring.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2773266
    (Updated 37 days ago)
    Lead the development of cutting-edge AI models to power Amazon's eCommerce ontology - the authoritative source of product knowledge driving exceptional customer experiences. Applied Scientists in this role solve problems related to product classification, attribute extraction, ontology modeling, data integration and enrichment, and scalable knowledge services. It's challenging due to the vast scale, heterogeneous data sources, and evolving domains, but exciting for pushing boundaries in ML, NLP, and knowledge representation research. If you're passionate about driving innovation at scale, we want to hear from you! Key job responsibilities - Lead the research and development of novel AI solutions to enrich and curate Amazon's product ontology (Product Knowledge) at scale - Develop scalable data processing pipelines and architectures to ingest, transform, and enrich product data from various sources (seller listings, customer reviews, etc.) - Collaborate with engineers to design and implement robust services - Work closely with product managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to identify opportunities for innovation and drive the roadmap for Product Knowledge - Mentor and upskill junior scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing - Communicate complex technical concepts and research findings effectively to diverse audiences, including leadership, cross-functional teams, and the wider scientific community - Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation, and related fields, and identify opportunities to apply them to Product Knowledge A day in the life The Amazon product ontology is a structured knowledge base representing product types, attributes, classes, and relationships. It standardizes product data, enabling enhanced customer experiences through improved search and recommendations, streamlined selling processes, and internal data enrichment across Amazon's eCommerce ecosystem. You will work with following stakeholders: - Product Managers represent customer experiences and selling partner experiences - Category Leaders (e.g., apparel, electronics) provide domain knowledge and guidance as subject matter experts - Engineers build and maintain data pipelines and services in production - Ontologists design data models and define guidelines - Other Applied Scientists collaborate on research and innovation About the team The Product Knowledge team at Amazon is dedicated to creating the industry-standard eCommerce product and services ontology. Our diverse team of applied scientists, engineers, ontologists and subject matter experts build a comprehensive ontology enabling exceptional customer and selling partner experiences through high-quality, contextual product knowledge at scale.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 2762609
    (Updated 43 days ago)
    As a Principal Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically fearless and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance). About the team The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope with multimodal LLMs and Gen AI in Computer Vision, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2743117
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    We are looking for a leader of AGI-and Nova led team in LLM technologies for applications across Alexa, AWS, and other Amazon businesses. In this role, you will innovate in the fastest-moving fields of current AI research, in particular in how to integrate a broad range of structured and unstructured information into AI systems (e.g. with RAG techniques), and get to immediately apply your results in highly visible Amazon products. If you are deeply familiar with LLMs, natural language processing, and machine learning and have experience managing high-performing research teams, this may be the right opportunity for you. Our fast-paced environment requires a high degree of independence in making decisions and driving ambitious research agendas all the way to production. You will work with other science and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders to maximize velocity and impact of your team's contributions. It's an exciting time to be a leader in AI research. In Amazon's AGI Information team, you can make your mark by improving information-driven experience of Amazon customers worldwide!
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2734656
    (Updated 40 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for world class scientists to join its AWS Fundamental Research Team working within a variety of machine learning disciplines. This group is entrusted with developing core machine learning solutions for AWS services. At the AWS Fundamental Research Team you will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and explore conceptually large scale ML solutions across different domains and computation platforms. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic community. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists. This team is part of AWS Utility Computing: Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. About the team Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
  • US, MA, Boston
    Job ID: 2742088
    (Updated 43 days ago)
    As a Principal Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically fearless and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance). About the team The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope with multimodal LLMs and Gen AI in Computer Vision, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.
  • (Updated 120 days ago)
    The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create? The Team: How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a team that is solving a significant problem through innovative technology? Would you like to know more about how we are envisioning the use of machine learning and GenAI to solve these problems? If this sounds intriguing, then we’d like to talk to you about a role on our team that's tackling a set of problems requiring significant innovation and scaling. As a Sr. Applied Scientist, you will design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems, helping Amazon Devices to provide great products. This role will be a key member of a Science and Data technology team based in Denver, CO. You will work closely with other scientists, machine learning experts, and engineers to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Amazon Device Services & Software products. You will partner with technology and product leaders to solve business and technology problems using scientific approaches to build new services that surprise and delight our customers. Our scientists work closely with software engineers to put algorithms into practice. They also work on cross-disciplinary efforts with other scientists within Amazon. Key job responsibilities - Define proper output business metrics, and build input models to identify patterns and drivers of the output. - Drive actions at scale using scientific methods and decision-making - Design and develop complex mathematical, statistical, Machine Learning, GenAI models and apply them to define strategic and tactical needs and drive the appropriate business and technical solutions - Design experiments, test hypotheses, and build actionable models - Prototype these models by using modeling languages such as R or in software languages such as Python. - Work with software engineering teams to drive scalable, real-time implementations - Utilizing Amazon systems and tools to effectively work with terabytes of data

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